U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, perhaps the most formidable foe of political corruption by state lawmakers, criticized Governor Cuomo’s shutdown of the Moreland Commission investigating such wrongdoing and said last week that his office will take over its ongoing probes.
“The plain facts are that it was disbanded before its time,” the Manhattan-based prosecutor said April 9 on WNYC-radio’s “Brian Lehrer Show,” adding, “Nine months may be the proper and natural gestation period for a child, but in our experience not the amount of time necessary for a public-corruption prosecution to mature.”
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